Wheelbarrow-tray.



PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904. 0. B. EQOKWOOD.

WHEELBARROW TRAY.

APPLIOATIOH FILED NOV. 30, 1903.

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No. "776,088. PATE'NTED NOV. 29, 1904.

C. B ROGKWOOD WHEELBARROW TRAY. APPLICATION FILED Nov. ad. 1903.

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7 CfiQ/"ki Jim/W000i @Alforgzys I No. 776,088 Patented November 29, 1904-.

NITED STATES PATENT CHARLES E. ROOKVVOOD, OF SAGINAI/V, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO MIUII'L GAN WHEELBARROVV & TRUCK (10., OF SAGINAW, MICHIGAN.

WHEELBARROW-TRAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,088, dated November 29, 1904:.

Application filed November 30, 1903. Serial No. 183,196. (No model.)

T 1077/07 it 2! GOYWQT'W 5. There are preferably a pair of these con- Be it known that I, CHARLES B. RooKwooD, necting members disposed one adjacent to a citizen of the United States, residing at Sagieach end of and extending wholly through the naw, in the county of Saginaw and State of bottom transversely of the boards 4 for clamp- 5 Michigan, have invented a new and useful ing the latter securely together. The tray Weelbarrow-Tray, of which the following is ends 2 and 3 are each composed of a plurality a specification. of boards or sections 6, arranged edge to edge At the present day it is the practice to proand united by tie-bolts or analogous connectvide a certain type of wheelbarrows with trays ing elements 7, disposed adjacent to the outer I0 consisting of a bottom section and upwardlyends of and extending transverselythrough inclined front and rear end sections. In the all of the boards or sections composing the present construction of this type of barrowsaid end memberof the tray. The edges of tray the end sections are each made from a the boards forming the bottom may be shipsingle piece of board of suitable width to inlapped, as shown in Fig. 4, or provided with I 5 sure proper height for the sections. Thus the interengaging tongues and grooves, as in Fig.

use of extra-wide lumber, with a consequent 5, while the edges of the boards forming the increase in the cost of the tray, is entailed, end members may be interlocked in a similar While at the same time the front end section manner, or they and the edges of the bottom is, owing to the extreme width of the board, sections may, if found expedient, have simply 20 rendered highly susceptible of splitting on smooth matched edges maintained in tight recoming into contact with the ground, as 00- lation by the transverse connecting members. curs in dumping the barrow. In Fig. 2 I have illustrated the tray applied The object of the present invention is to to a wheelbarrow in which the bottom 1 is obviate the above objectionable features by sustained by the side bars 8 and the end mom- 2 5 producing a tray in which the end sections bers by uprising standards or braces 9, as

may be made of less-expensive lumber and at usual in this class of devices. the same time be stronger and more durable It is apparent from the foregoing that the than those heretofore produced, thus materiend members of the barrow will be stronger ally decreasing the cost of and rendering more and more durable than those now in use, he-

3 efficient the device as a whole. cause of the transverse tie-bolts, while at the To these ends the invention comprises the same time the production of said members is novel features of construction and combinarendered less expensive, owing to the fact that tion of parts more fully hereinafter described. comparatively narrow, and consequently less In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is expensive, lumber may be employed. In at 35 a perspective view of a complete tray embodytaining these ends it is to he understood that ing my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longi- I do not limit or confine myself to the precise 5 tudinal section showingthe tray applied. Fig. details herein set forth, inasmuch as minor 3 is a perspective view showing the tray memchanges may be made therein without departbers separated and the sections of the bottom ing from the spirit of the invention. For ex- 4 and one of the end members slightly spread ample, the end members may be composed of to disclose the connecting elements. Figs. 4 two or more sections and the bottom member 9 and 5 are detail views. of any number desired, or the ends may in Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the practice be employed with a bottom of the bottom, 2 the front, and 3 the rear ends, of the usual construction and still lie within the scope 45 tray embodying my invention. The bottom of the invention.

1 is, in accordance with this invention, pref- I am aware that it is old, as disclosed in erably composed of a plurality of boards or Patent No. 87,053, granted to A. 0. Hubsections 4 of uniform length, arranged edge bard November 29, 1892, to construct a comto edge, and connected by tie rods or members plete dish-like tray from a series of sections or staves united as one piece by curved connecting rods or elements. I do not, therefore, lay claim to such a construction, but only to a device in Which the tray is composed of a bottom and end members Wholly distinct from each other and in which one of the members is composed of a plurality of sections united by a straight connecting element or elements.

Having thus described my invention, What I0 I claim is-- A Wheelbarrow-tray comprising a bottom member and independent end members Wholly distinct from said bottom, one of the tray members being composed of a plurality of sections juxtaposed edge to edge, and a straight connecting element or elements extending Wholly through and uniting the sections.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES B. ROOKWOOD.

Witnesses:

WYMAN L. PAXSON, BLIss STEBBINs. 

